A pilot who died in the fatal collision of two sightseeing sea planes in Alaska has been identified.

Randy Jason Sullivan, 46, was piloting the de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver owned by Mountain Air Service that collided with a larger de Havilland Otter DHC-3 on Monday afternoon in Ketchikan, Alaska.

Sullivan was among the six killed in the crash, officials confirm. The Coast Guard on Tuesday confirmed the identities of the other five fatalities as:

Simon Bodie, 56, from Tempe, New South Wales, Australia

Cassandra Webb, 62, from Saint Louis, Mississippi

Ryan Wilk, 39, from Utah

Louis Botha, 46, from San Diego, California

Elsa Wilk, 37, from Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

According to a post by his mother on Facebook, Sullivan had been a pilot with Mountain Air since 2012, flying tour groups over the rugged wilderness of Alaska's Inside Passage, a popular cruise ship route.

Ten survived the collision with injuries. The Coast Guard concluded the search for bodies on Tuesday after finding two missing passengers dead, bringing the death toll to six, and the focus of authorities turned toward investigating the cause of the crash.

Randy Jason Sullivan, 46, was piloting the de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver (above) owned by Mountain Air Service that collided with a larger sightseeing plane on Monday

Father-of-two Sullivan had been a pilot with Mountain Air since 2012

Reports indicate that a larger a single-engine de Havilland Otter operated by Taquan Air (like the one above) descended sharply before colliding with the Beaver piloted by Sullivan

Federal accident investigators said the larger of the two flightseeing floatplanes involved in the deadly midair collision had rapidly descended in altitude when it collided with Sullivan's aircraft.

Spokesman Peter Knudson with the National Transportation Safety Board says the larger of the planes, a single-engine de Havilland Otter operated by Taquan Air, was initially traveling at an altitude of about 3,800 feet.

He says the plane had descended to an altitude of 3,200 to 3,300 feet when it collided with the smaller plane, the Beaver piloted by Sullivan, as both planes headed to Ketchikan with cruise ship passengers.

Knudson says the Beaver had been flying at a 3,300-foot altitude.

A team of 14 NTSB investigators has been sent to the site and divers will start working on Wednesday to pull up the wreckage of the two planes.

The NTSB team began investigating on Tuesday and is unlikely to determine the cause during the week it will spend at the scene, NTSB board member Jennifer Homendy told a news conference.

Sullivan (above) was one of six people killed in the horror mid-air collision

Pontoons from one of the crashed planes are seen as the Coast Guard searches for survivors

U.S. Coast Guard crew searches for survivors from downed aircraft in the vicinity of George Inlet near Ketchikan, Alaska on Monday

The two floatplanes collided in mid-air Monday near the southeast Alaska town of Ketchikan

Three survivors of the horror plane collision were released from PeaceHealth Ketchikan Medical Center on Tuesday, hospital officials said.

Hospital spokeswoman Marty West says three others are in fair condition.

Four others were initially treated at the hospital following Monday's collision of two sightseeing floatplanes.

Those survivors were later flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with injuries that Harborview Medical Center spokeswoman Susan Gregg says include 'fractures to ribs, pelvis, arm and spine.'

Gregg said Tuesday morning that a 67-year-old man is in serious condition in intensive care.

She says the three other patients are two women and a man in their 60s and that they are in satisfactory condition.

The planes that crashed Monday were carrying a total of 16 people - 14 cruise ship passengers and the pilots.

Officials have confirmed that a Canadian is among the six who died.

Global Affairs Canada said in an emailed statement Tuesday that the name and hometown of the victim is not being made public for privacy reasons.

A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew hovers while searching for a survivor from a report of two aircraft colliding in the vicinity of George Inlet

Emergency response crews transport an injured passenger to an ambulance at the George Inlet Lodge docks, Monday in Ketchikan

The Washington, D.C.-based investigative team from the National Transportation Safety Board was expected to arrive in Ketchikan Tuesday afternoon.

Floatplanes have pontoons mounted under their fuselages so they can land on water.

The passengers from the cruise ship Royal Princess were on sightseeing flights.

The Royal Princess left Vancouver, British Columbia, on May 11 and was scheduled to arrive in Anchorage on Saturday.

'We are extending our full support to the investigating authorities as well as the traveling companions of the guests involved,' the company said in a statement.

The Royal Princess, which can carry up to 3,600 people, was among four city-sized cruise ships in the tiny coastal community on Monday.

Two U.S. Coast Guard 45-foot response boats drift through George Inlet as part of a search effort on Tuesday near Ketchikan, Alaska, at the site of a collision between two float planes

During port stops, visitors can shop in tourist stores or take part in several excursions, such as visiting an Alaska Native village, tour the backcountry, or visit a raptor center.

Another popular trip is flightseeing in Misty Fjords National Monument. Visitors marvel at the lakes, snowcapped peaks and glacier valleys in the wilderness area. Trips cost about $260 each.

The smaller plane, which operated independently and not as an official excursion flight booked through the cruise ship, was owned by Mountain Air Service of Ketchikan, which didn't immediately return a call Tuesday.

The Beaver appears to have broken apart in midair, according to Jerry Kiffer, duty incident commander of the Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue Squad.

He said the plane's tail and section of the fuselage were 900 feet from the aircraft's floats, which landed near shore.

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